My TN Connection

BICSI hosted another successful conference earlier this month at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada and I’m happy to say that I was a part of it. I know the old adage that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But for the purposes of this post, I will break the rules and fill you in on exactly what took place.

The opening keynote featured Ken Schmidt, who spent over 12 years helping Harley Davidson build its brand reputation. He explained that “marketing yourself or your business shouldn’t be done in a rational or logical manner, because unless it’s a life or death decision – we don’t think with logic. We think with emotion from the heart. And that’s how you can make that human connection and continue to relate to customers as we keep advancing in a technology driven society.” continue »

I was recently browsing the Data Center Journal website doing some research on trends in data center cabling when I came across a nice video - Data Center Cabling for Data Center Managers - published on their Data Center TV site. Benoit Chevarie of Belden Cable discusses trends and what to plan for in data center networking.

Here are some of the discussion points:

• 10 Gig: With 10GBase-T becoming a factor and network demands increasing, 10 Gig is a major factor in today’s data center networking.
• Virtualization will play a role in network speeds and connections.
• Some predict the end of copper and the immediate switch to fiber, but others argue that copper technology will keep evolving as well. Talk of 40 Gig and 100 Gig over copper support that theory.

There is also a section in the interview where Benoit discusses how to plan for tomorrow’s data center networking while planning today’s cabling. He mentions planning robust cabling that will support data center networking for the next 10-15 years.

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